Communication with dialog

[Malfunction]

Hi,

 

I'm using a dialog in order to change properties of an object:

if (myDialog.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)

{

actFunny();

}

 

actFunny() changes the properties just fine right after the dialog was closed. But the dialog object is still present otherwise I couldn't retrieve the rewuired informations of it. So how do I dispose the dialog object after using it? I've never seen the dialog object beeing disposed in one of the examples. Since I'm giving the dialog necessary parameters in it's constructor it has to be created newly.

[PlausiblyDamp]

You could probably do something like

 

myDialog.Dispose(); if you really felt the urge but if you leave it alone .Net's garbage collector will get round to deleting it eventually.

[Malfunction]

I was rethinking my current implementation and found my way of passing and retrieving values of and from my dialog very ugly.

E.g. I have an object X which has three integer values (private members). These values can be changed through a dialog. Object X opens the dialog passing it's three integer values through the dialog's constructor (correct me if that's bad style already).

After the dialog is closed object x needs to know the new values.

Right now my dialog has three public members which hold the three integer values. So after closing the dialog object X reads these fields directly :/

[Heiko]

I'd rather have private members and expose them through properties. So you can set them readonly if required.